Seek by iNaturalist has also been around for much longer and is (probably) the OG of Pokemon Go with animals - it's intended for kids and is a bit more educational.
Depending on the VLM you are using under the covers - I'd recommend snagging a bunch of nature pictures from instagram/etc. and measuring its baseline accuracy. In my experience, individual species of birds can be more difficult to identify particularly the smaller ones.
Nice job. I can’t give you feedback unfortunately as I don’t have an iPhone but can at least give some advice w/ regard to the landing page.
I would put the Terms and Privacy links at the bottom, not in the top navigation bar.
Rethink the image layout. Right now you’ve got the Lingopop picture in the hero ribbon, then immediately below it in a rounded rectangle, and then just below that again in a square. It feels a bit repetitive.
Next, I’d make all of your screenshots zoomable. Let users click on them to open a lightbox, because they’re pretty small and hard to read as they are.
Also I’d wager you’d probably get a lot more potential users if you opened this up as a simple web app.
P.S. If you like word games, I’ve got one for you. I don’t really think you could consider it a learning game, because it would be pretty hard unless you were already moderately fluent in English.
Hey,
Thanks a lot for your great feedback.
Yep, I'll definitely make some changes to the landing page. It's a temporary site to let user download the app from Apple AppStore.
But yeah, the web version is something I also have in my plan.
Cheers,
>You might be thinking "If spaced repetition is so effective, why isn't it more popular?"
I might have thought that 30 years ago - but I can't remember the last time I used a flashcard app (phone, Desktop, etc) that didn't include SRS as the default algorithm. These days the new hotness is FSRS [1] which Anki uses.
You are right, I integrated FSRS for langikal.app. Unfortunately, they had some refactor last year that broke the API. This is why I'm not using the latest.
A similar thing happened when Google started really pushing generating flowcharts as a use-case with Nano Banana. A slick presentation can distract people from the only thing that really matters - the accuracy of the underlying data.
As a slightly different tack, I’ve been using Copilot to generate flowcharts from some of the fiendishly complex (and badly written) standard operating procedures we have at work.
People find them quite easy to check - easier than the raw document. My angle with teams is use these to check your processes. If the flow is wrong it’s either because the LLM has screwed up, or because the policy is wrong/badly written. It’s usually the latter. It’s a good way to fix SOPs
It’s interesting you mentioned that. One of the things I’ve started doing recently is throwing a large LLM such as codex-5.3 (highest level of reasoning) at some of the more complex systems we have to produce nicely formatted ASCII diagrams.
I still review each diagram afterward, but the great thing is that, unlike image-based diagrams, they remain fully text-readable and searchable. And you can even expose them as part of the knowledge base for the LLM to reference when needed going forward.
A favorite with my younger students back when I taught ESL in Asia was the “Hammer Game.” It involved dividing the whiteboard into categories (for example, Fruit on the left, Vegetables on the right).
Then the students were divided into two lines. The first two kids came up and were given squeaky rubber mallets. I would hold up a word (sometimes with an accompanying picture, depending on the difficulty level), and the first kid to run up and hammer the correct section of the whiteboard won the round.
Very fun for the group and you get a bonus case of tinnitus at the end of the class period!
I love it! I will need to check with my co-workers if rubber mallets are allowed in the classroom XD. But I am sure I could think of a similar fun action.
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